SHADOWINESS Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

shadowiness

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Definition of shadowiness

as in vagueness

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Noun

Declare the state's rules void for vagueness under the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause.

— Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026
But that sort of vagueness is hardly unusual for a campaign, and Platner provided enough detail to communicate the overall shape of his program.

— Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of vagueness

Noun

Because of the legal murkiness, Pratte urges people to talk to an attorney before foregoing registration.

— Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 17 Aug. 2026
That’s because dishwashers are equipped with something called a turbidity sensor that basically senses the murkiness of the water and adjusts the wash cycle accordingly.

— Emily Farris, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of murkiness

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Nevertheless, across multiple administrations, the United States retained deliberate ambiguity on this front.

— Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Leaders Must Establish Clarity Around AI's Boundaries A significant driver of AI-induced burnout is ambiguity.

— Khadim Batti, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of ambiguity

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What The Dark Wizard does differently is grapple with Potter’s impenetrability without being able to resolve it, and consider how that indecision might change our perceptions of his life and his May 2015 death while BASE jumping in Yosemite.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 May 2026
Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.

— Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025

Definition of impenetrability

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Engineers will then study how the compact nuclear heating system performs during roughly 14 Earth days of darkness.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
The effects would be especially disruptive in Antarctica, where observatories take advantage of the continent’s remote, dry conditions and the round-the-clock darkness of polar winter to study subtle signals such as the cosmic microwave background.

— Arielle Frommer, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026

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